Wasteland: Hunting the wasteland with a max-level account

Chapter 46 Old things in Ronglin ①

After passing this ancestral hall, Hua Xiaoqin began to discover more and more human buildings.

But these ruins are not as complete as the ancestral hall, and basically all collapsed on the ground. It is only known that this place was once a village.

From time to time, you can find intermittent bluestone roads in the banyan forest, connecting various ruins and going deep into the banyan forest.

Moving forward along the bluestone road, the aerial roots of the banyan forest began to become less dense, revealing more and more large areas of the sky.

Hua Xiaoqin came down from the tree and passed quickly.

Many plants on the ground were a step slower, and the rapidly growing vines failed to catch the prey that passed by, so they could only return in vain.

Further along the bluestone road, Hua Xiaoqin finally saw the third relatively well-preserved human building—a school.

The school is not large, with only three bungalows for classrooms, but it is built very solidly and the outlines can still be seen.

The banyan tree also grew into the school, lifting up the playground floor.

[Identification (Level 100): This is a rural primary school with traces of human and ape activities. 】

But as soon as Hua Xiaoqin stepped into the school gate, there were several black figures on the roof of the bungalow baring their teeth and screaming at her.

Take a closer look.

What a monkey.

And they are all mutated monkeys.

[Identification (Level 100): This is a group of mutated horse monkeys with dark blue fur and high IQ. They can imitate humans in using tools. 】

Could this group of monkeys be the same group of apes that once stayed in the ancestral hall?

However, they are able to withstand the severe cooling this winter and still maintain a gregarious state, indicating that their survival ability should not be underestimated.

Although the identification technique did not indicate the attack capabilities of the monkeys, Hua Xiaoqin did not dare to relax.

She really wanted to go into the school to see if there were any scraps of paper left by the human survivors, but in the current situation, I was afraid that the monkeys would not let her in easily.

She looked at the map and found that the monkeys were all big yellow dots, indicating that the other party was quite rational and did not insist on killing her.

The monkey group occupies a favorable terrain, but she is alone, and she has to outwit this battle...

Half an hour later, Hua Xiaoqin turned around again from the banyan forest.

This time, she carried several grouse in her hand, and also brought dry branches necessary for barbecue.

When the monkeys saw that she had brought back prey, they all stretched out their necks to watch the fun.

I saw this strange two-legged beast set up a platform on the playground, lit a fire, and put the prey on the fire - soon, the fat of the grouse was roasted golden and fragrant, attracting the monkeys in the house. Several of them also ran out.

"Hey! Let's discuss something? Let me trade these with you!" Hua Xiaoqin raised the freshly roasted grouse and gestured in front of the monkeys.

"I'll give you this, why don't you pick out the things in the house and give them to me?"

As she spoke, she cut a chicken leg with a knife and started to eat it herself.

"Oh! It smells so good! It's delicious! Do you want to eat it? Give me something in exchange!"

There was a little monkey in the monkey group who was about to take a step towards Hua Xiaoqin, but was quickly grabbed by the elder and pushed back into his arms, making the little monkey squeak in anxiety.

Seeing that it was almost done, Hua Xiaoqin dug out her bag for a long time and finally took out half a piece of scrap paper to write something on and gave it to the agricultural team to use.

"I need this kind of thing! I'll trade it with you for food!"

She waved the paper and the half-eaten chicken leg in her hand. It took her a long time to get closer and throw the chicken drumstick and the piece of paper into the air.

The vigilant monkey among the monkeys jumped up, caught the chicken leg, looked at it twice, and boldly stuffed it into his mouth. "Hey! Yes! Those are all for food! Give me the things in the house! Give me something to exchange for!"

The monkeys didn't understand. They just took two steps towards her and stared at the grouse in her hand with wide eyes.

"Hey, hey! No! You can't come any closer! Give me the piece of paper! I'll give you the food!"

The monkeys didn't understand and took two steps forward. Hua Xiaoqin shot an arrow at the piece of paper that had just fallen. They were so frightened that they hurried back.

"Paper! Things! Exchange for food!"

The two sides were locked in a stalemate for a long time, and finally an old monkey with gray hair came out of the house.

The old monkey Lao Shenzai sat in front of the house, and other monkeys came to catch her lice from time to time.

Hua Xiaoqin ate another half of the chicken leg, shot the second arrow at the piece of paper, and finally threw the chicken leg with a lot of meat to the monkeys.

Just when she thought there was no hope and was about to feed the remaining grouse to the dog, the old monkey moved.

She gestured, not knowing what it meant. Anyway, the other monkeys pulled out a bunch of things from the house and watched Hua Xiaoqin warily as she pushed the things over and pushed them next to the piece of paper.

Hua Xiaoqin quickly ran up to inspect the goods.

There were yellowed textbooks and diaries, long sticks that were burnt black, and a few tattered bowls.

The handwriting on the diary was clearly visible and was written in pencil. Hua Xiaoqin was so happy that she quickly threw the grouse out and quickly freed up her hands to scoop up all the things sent by the monkey group.

The monkeys were so happy that they screamed again, and they all stepped forward to snatch the grouse.

In the diary, someone clearly wrote down the ins and outs of the village.

This used to be a village in the mountains and forests, where we had no worries about food and clothing, but the road was difficult to walk. Later, when a natural disaster struck, a group of people came out of the nearby military restricted area and merged with the villagers to survive for several years.

Later, everyone found a hot spring resort village that was more suitable for living, so everyone moved away. Before leaving, they left this diary and a map to the best building in the village.

The most valuable thing is this map of the surrounding land, but it was redrawn about ten years after the end of the world, more than ten years ago.

I heard that various extreme climates broke out in the last few years before the end of the world and changed a lot of landforms. Therefore, maps from the civilized era have long been of no practical use. This kind of land map is more valuable when it comes to exploring.

It has the area of ​​​​the banyan forest at that time, the mark of the nearby salt and hot spring resort.

At the end of the diary are words of encouragement from survivors: A single spark can start a prairie fire!
  All the words were written with pencils. Although they were rubbed by the monkeys, they were still legible. It shows that the survivors at that time had all these things figured out.

Hua Xiaoqin hugged the diary, smiled and cried.

Before I came out of the 61st Institute or heard the news on the radio, I had never seen a physical object like a diary and felt it.

In addition to their shelter, there are others of the same kind, all of whom are trying to stay alive, hoping to rebuild the great country that existed on this land before the restoration.

After all, a single spark can start a prairie fire!

Hua Xiaoqin sighed for a while and put the diary away, thinking that she would find paper and pen later and copy a new diary and put it back in the village.

When something happened here, she stopped staying, put out the fire, fed the crows and dogs, and headed west again.

The goal is still No. 61, and she hopes to open the road to No. 61 as soon as possible.

As for the hot spring resort on the map, Hua Xiaoqin felt that it should be the swamp.

But there are still people alive in the swamp?

Why haven’t I seen them contact Institute 61?
  In addition to No. 61 on her trip, she also wanted to explore the swamp, hoping to find the owner or descendants of the diary and ask questions about the banyan forest...

(End of this chapter)